Fate of the Fallen by Ellery Adams & Elizabeth Lockard

Author:Ellery Adams & Elizabeth Lockard [Adams, Ellery & Lockard, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940846750
Publisher: Beyond The Page
Published: 2016-01-29T08:00:00+00:00

10

At a little before seven a.m. Saturday, Cooper’s eyes popped open, and as hard as she tried, she couldn’t get back to sleep. She spent a good half hour lying in bed, resting, while her cats, Moses and Miriam, pounced at each other and bounded over her. When they finally slowed down, she rose and dressed at a leisurely pace, meandered down to the kitchen, and slowly ate breakfast.

Mama and Daddy were out making cookie deliveries, and Grammy was in her room doing her morning devotional, having been out late at a church potluck. That left Cooper alone to fend off Popeye, who was a little too interested in her bacon and eggs. She finally gave in and broke off a crispy piece of bacon for him, dropping it by her feet. He gobbled it up without even chewing, then sat back and smiled, his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth.

She checked the time. Not even nine o’clock yet. And she didn’t have plans until after lunch. She was meeting Nathan and Quinton at the hospital to visit John and see how he was coming along. After visiting last Sunday with Savannah and Trish, Cooper hadn’t been back to the hospital, but Savannah and Trish both had. Monday night, Savannah went with Jake. Tuesday, Bryant took a turn. Wednesday Quinton went in, undoubtedly bringing a dessert with him. Thursday, Trish and her husband, Phil, visited after making an unproductive trip to the IHOP to try and find John’s dog tags. And last night, Savannah and Jake dropped by a second time. So far, none of them had actually been there when John was awake, but the doctor assured them this was due to his heavy-duty pain medication and not because he wanted to avoid having company.

Maybe today would be the day he’d finally be coherent. What a nice surprise that would be! If John was awake, and she, Nathan, and Quinton could talk to him, maybe it would take Nathan’s mind off of Christine’s situation for just a little while. There was nothing Nathan could do for his sister at the moment, and a distraction would do him good.

Until she met them at one, however, Cooper’s day was wide open, and it was shaping up to be quite lazy. She took her morning cup of Joe out back and admired the perfect blue sky. Three little hummingbirds flitted through the air, enjoying Mama’s flower bed. Columbus watched them with obvious interest.

She lingered a while longer in her pajamas until she worked up the gumption to change and get going. When she opened the garage door to get started on a new birdhouse project, she was just in time to see Grammy getting into the passenger side of an old Chevy Caprice.

From her vantage point in the garage, Cooper could see a man with thick white hair and an equally white smile sitting behind the wheel. His face was unfamiliar, but Grammy seemed happy enough to go with him.

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